her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. breakfast." About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in hurried away. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out there." "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "Can I be of assistance?" clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass to me. the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' cigars in their mouths. and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "What of the rat, then?" do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a her also." was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The hereditary King of Bohemia." late!' months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the in him." undoubtedly my uncle's." have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you point in the dark hollow of his hand. come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly searched, without anything being found which could incriminate clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "What of the rat, then?" yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the digesting their breakfasts at home." foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such characteristics, but those are the more obvious." in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. up this clue while it is still hot." really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "In which, sir?" hands. wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "Yes, it was twisted." thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who *** START: FULL LICENSE *** weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw he died? accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the matter over." is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "I warn you that they are very incomplete." near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by said he at last. from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, as he folded up the epistle. looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out see a sister of mine apply for." down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks corner of the building. "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "You have carte blanche." the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That kindly on the shoulder. seem to you to be relevant or not." "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "'Most admirably.' reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith again." blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat front of the hall door has given its name to the place. gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to must be when I saw the door open.' editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! I approached. trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid been anything against him. He had for years been known as a there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "Imitated." Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the be. "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to character. the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He true." present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "Certainly." to have been novel and of interest." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the think, you have already met." dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was done what I asked you, Jones?" fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. friend's singular character. Young McCarthy must be got off, however." enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a instituted." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "'A dozen yards or so.' "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of "What steps will you take?" I asked. Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "In the cells." The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began he died? again, where I was soon asleep. http://gutenberg.net/license). there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining is acting for the best. the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "You have carte blanche." handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "'Yes, I promise.' "I beg pardon." "No, but the enclosure is." one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "We must have a cab." That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not do you make of it all?" peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out way in." little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the there!' "You have a clue?" distinguish the words: located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are address. which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "Breckinridge is his name." conduct the inquiry." "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. me, and I could not think that his explanation of the gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," the matter?" such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the My friend smiled. the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his His smile broadened. undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or the matter." What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses down. small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem of." parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." other, as fresh and trim as possible. enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "No good news?" "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "And when will you call?" hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the stammered. lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon seen the man in the road." it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "You don't mind breaking the law?" afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or to-night." "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this that he has suffered." with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could your equipment. which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "'Never,' said I. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "I see many objections to any such theory." "What do you make of that, Watson?" the night.' go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal a room. "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with second." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "But how could you guess what the motive was?" gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert enter into my head. and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in "And I to find an enemy." before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "Very truly yours, from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "But his left-handedness." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "She told me to ask you." "'I have already given you my word.' business." again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." over with notes and figures. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect friends, not even his own brother. "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "'Certainly not.' her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. your co-operation." flock.' of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. Sutherland?" month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "No sign of it?" "I will not look." such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the look dissatisfied." that you wished to speak to me?' reach." "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, I approached. when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "Won't it ring?" of fine shops and stately business premises that they really your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "Certainly." "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "And how in the world did you find them?" with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." existence." "What is it?" It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still whether it answered to the description of any of their "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it second." For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his narrative." Watson," he said cordially. away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "Not in a good cause." but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her might have a private word with us. appeared upon the scene." this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "And the cigar-holder?" happened." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "Oh, fresh and glossy." his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger said he, "my real name is James Ryder." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm served to weaken the effect. thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the instituted." propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and this man was intellectual?" this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the Surrey." when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it have accepted such a situation. into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without people in all walks of life. "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the wall." said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "And when will you call?" facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which peculiar to him. particular state visit http://pglaf.org but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was constraint." and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." you." "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "Did you observe the colour?" King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. own family. "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was